Baxter said:
Well guys, hate tro burst your bubble, but Wildstorm/DC really did the first Widescreen, kick thier heads in team back with Warren Ellis's The Authority, wich the Ultimates are really just a conceptual extension from.
Point well taken (says the guy who belatedly got into
The Authority).
But in fairness, Mark Gruenwald's original
Squadron Supreme miniseries set the tone for the whole paranoid, a-team-of-demagogical-superhumans-could-take-over-the-world-so-we-might-as-well-have-them-in-service-of-our-Government schtick, of which
The Authority (and Ellis' version of
Stormwatch) was "just a conceptual extension from".
So, in an odd way, Nurhachi is *half*-right: the original Hyperion is one of the first "nuanced" Supermen-with-a-screwy-view-of-ethics.
Feel the hyphenation, biatch!
In any case, the whole storyline with "The Maximums" (or whatever they're called) indicates a HUGE void of creativity, IMHO, since DC already *has* (had?) a team of Authority analogs, called The Elite or something, from Joe Kelly's run on
Superman, I think. So this latest idea sounds like so much rehashing.